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The Birth of Venus - Boticelli Death is certain, and when a man's fate has come, not even the gods can save him, no matter how they love him  - Homer Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor has died in hospital after a two-year battle with leukemia, his family representative confirmed in a statement. He was 67. Kapoor, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2018 and returned to India last September following treatment in New York, passed away peacefully on Thursday morning. Irrfan Khan, one of Bollywood’s most beloved stars who had achieved considerable success in the west, has died aged 53. He had been admitted to the intensive care unit of Mumbai’s Kokilaben hospital on Tuesday with a colon infection and on Wednesday morning a statement was released confirming his death. Apr. 30 The world of photographs and movies was born in Neptune's era. The first still photograph was taken in 1827 and the first movie cameras   were invented in the early 1830s-these gave th

The upcoming Venus retrograde cycle may hold some surprises for the world. During its retrograde period Venus asks us to revaluate what we are attracted to and often shows us how and where our values have changed.   In 2020, Venus goes retrograde at 21º of Gemini on May 13, 2020 and begins to move forward on June 25, 2020. A new Earth-Venus synodic cycle begins on June 3, 2020, almost exactly in the middle of the retrograde cycle, when Venus conjoins the Sun. An alignment of Earth, Venus and Sun when Venus lies between Earth and the Sun is called an inferior conjunction. The Venus transit is of course seen from the Earth (geocentric) as we look toward the Venus-Sun conjunction in the constellation and sidereal sign of Taurus (tropical 13 Gem). A synod however is defined looking from the Sun (heliocentric) toward the two or more planets that are aligning. Thus, the Earth-Venus synod is seen in the exact opposite part of the zodiac, in this case in sidereal Scorpio (tropical 1

A severe weather system is pummeling the East Coast on Monday, with at least 24 people dead in the South. The storm is moving up the coast this afternoon, making its way across the Mid-Atlantic and into the Northeast. At least 25 million people on the East Coast are under a tornado watch until 1800ET, CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen said. Hennen added that severe weather could be seen in northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/25-million-people-under-tornado-watch-east-coast In a previous post Geophysical disturbances at Last Quarter Moon? [1], I wrote: Astrologers consider the conjunctions of major planets as sensitive periods when important changes are likely to occur. Planetary geometric configurations occurring now can also cause exceptionally strong geophysical resonances, especially when Moon phases bring these configurations to the horizon or meridian axes. N

Nihangs; 1844 Patiala: A policeman's hand was chopped off and two other police officials were injured when a group of people allegedly attacked them in Punjab's Patiala district on Sunday, police said. A group of four-five 'Nihangs' (Sikhs armed with traditional weapons and dressed in loose blue top) were travelling in a vehicle and they were asked to stop at a vegetable market at around 6.15am by the Mandi board officials, they said.   April 12 https://bit.ly/2Vmy4Jw Charts for the phases of the Moon are among the most reliable indicators of events on earth. This is especially so at places where they bring major planetary configurations to the horizon or meridian. Moon phases act as   local “step down transformers” for powerful energies generated by far away stars and planets. Shown here is the chart for the Waning Gibbous Moon phase drawn for Patiala, India. Notice a loose T-square comprising Uranus-Mars-Saturn-TNP Poseidon aligns with

The Torch and Pitchfork Party Astrologers consider the conjunctions of major planets as sensitive periods when important changes are likely to occur. But most often these faraway conjunctions need a fast moving trigger to manifest as events. The Last Quarter Moon   (LQ) of April 14 conjoins the Jupiter-Pluto conjunction square to Eris.   This occurs as the Sun moves into sidereal Aries, and as Jupiter moves into sidereal Capricorn, all of which is fuelling   a major transition in our society. When Moon phases bring these configurations to the horizon or meridian axes as the LQ Moon does at Washington,DC major upheavals are likely. On a personal level and collective level, it can produce unexpected incidents leading to transformative changes. Remember that in Indonesia, the LQ Moon also appearing on the angles has just produced major volcanic eruptions [2]. But do look upon these eruptions as metaphoric and not necessarily physical. The conjunction of Jupiter and P

Today there is a meeting by video of the OPEC states and Russia. Tomorrow the energy ministers of all G-20 states will likewise meet. Their discussions will be about the sinking global oil price caused by a lack of demand due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and record oil output from Saudi Arabia and Russia. It is unlikely that OPEC will agree on any cut unless the U.S. and other large producers join the deal. The U.S. is, for now, unlikely to do that. Until the end of the last OPEC+ agreement this month and the onset of the pandemic demand slump, the three top producers were the U.S. with 12.7 million barrels per day, Russia with 10.9 mbpd and Saudi Arabia with 9.8 mbpd. Since 2016 OPEC and Russia had reduced their production to keep the oil price in the $60/b range. This effectively subsidized the U.S. shale industry. U.S. production kept growing while production by Russia and Saudi Arabia was artificially limited. It allowed the U.S. to grab more global market share at profita

The geography of Indonesia is dominated by volcanoes that are formed due to subduction zones between the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate. Some of the volcanoes are notable for their eruptions, for instance, Krakatoa for its global effects in 1883, the Lake Toba Caldera for its supervolcanic eruption estimated to have occurred 74,000 years before present which was responsible for six years of volcanic winter, and Mount Tambora for the most violent eruption in recorded history in 1815. Volcanoes in Indonesia are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. The most active volcanoes are Kelud and Merapi on Java island which have been responsible for thousands of deaths in the region. As of 2012, Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes and about 5 million people active within the danger zones. Astrologers consider the conjunctions of major planets as sensitive periods when important changes are likely to occur. Planetary geometric configurations occurring now can also cause e

The Virgin and the Raven One year ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration published the first image of a black hole in the nearby radio galaxy M 87. Now the collaboration has extracted new information from the EHT data on the distant quasar 3C 279: they observed the finest detail ever seen in a jet produced by a supermassive black hole. New analyses, led by Jae-Young Kim from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) in Bonn, enabled the collaboration to trace the jet back to its launch point, close to where violently variable radiation from across the electromagnetic spectrum arises. April 7 https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/something-is-lurking-in-the-heart-of-quasar-3c-279 The worldview underlying astrology sees all of reality as symbolic in nature. To the symbolist, the heavenly bodies are threads within a great tapestry of affinities and correspondences. Astrologers believe that when our attention is drawn by a cosmic phenomena, the

The Great Square of Pegasus The current   New Moon conjoins the Centaur Chiron amid the stars of the Great Square of Pegasus which sets the theme for this lunar cycle, and which propels us into a deep cathartic healing journey. Recall that Pegasus is the magical flying horse that lifts Perseus and Andromeda above the clutches of the sea monster Cetus. Cetus can be thought of as all mental and physical ailments that afflict mankind.   In our present context that would be the Coronavirus. The effect of the Coronavirus is not limited to just the physical health of humanity but also includes the financial devastation experienced worldwide. In a previous post [1] on the Coronavirus, I explained how the stars around 24 Capricorn have been historically linked to epidemics and plagues. This area was activated by the July 17, 2019 lunar eclipse. With a Jupiter-Pluto-Pallas conjunction now occurring at 24 Capricorn, the eclipse is once again active. Jupiter   tends to magnify a